Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-15
ALL SORTS.

Platinum has been discovered near
Clinton, Me.
| Thirty millions of cucumbers for
pickles are raised in Fredericksburg, va.
| During the recent eclipse of the sun
the Russian nihilists scattered their
pamphlets all over Russia.
| A North Carolina tobacco firm in July
| shipped 41,O00.O0O cigarettes. Since
January it has shipped 35,038, $40 cigar
cites.
Yung Wing, Chinaman residing. at
Hartford, has been elected presidenf o
the Unitarian club.
Christine Nilsson began under Signor
Merrill for a salary of 5000 month. A
| few years later the signor had to pay the
| Swedish Nightingale 81 400 night.
| DIR. Coggswell, of San Francisco, offers
to give 100000 to found a polytechnic
school in that city open to any boy or
girl in California.
Emancipation is doing its perfect work
with a negro by the name of Wiley Smith,
of Baker county, Georgia. His skin has
gradually become almost white. This
case is reported every year with different
names and localities, and yet the negroes
as a rule remain colored folk.
One of the stammering stories Of Will
liam r. Travers does not seem to have
been repeated since his death. New
port girl asked him, at a garden party
one evening, what time it was. "B-b-b-b-
by the t-t-time ocean ss-s say it" he
began, painfully, ''it w-w-will be s-s-s-.
seven o'clock!'
Iron says that if q continuous telegraph
wire were strung from New York to San
Francisco, aad a rainstorm should be in
progress along the entire route, the
shrinkage caused Ill the wire by the rain
would amount to 120 miles, and for small
er distances the proportion would be the
same.
a seminary for young ladies at Lasell.
| Mass. has just issued a beautifully illus
trated catalogue in which the announce
ment is made that "Pains is taken to
cultivate the best habits in speaking and
writing the English language"
| Another great glass -workers' strike
affecting about 1000 men, is said to be
| imminent. People who live in glass
| houses will please take notice and pro-
vide themselves for emergencies, being
particularly careful not to throw stones.
| During the past ten years the Baldwin
locomotives works have made over four
| thousand locomotives, of which they have
| exported about nine hundred. Of these,
fully seven hundred have gone to South
America. They not OILY furnish engines
to South America, but have supplanted
English locomotives in New Zealand.
They have sent many to Australia and tC
| New South Wales.
| General Buckner wants to be installed
| of KoT,fJ1 Eu wit q q
/ fuss as possible, but the democrats of
/ that state intend to make it an occasion
memorable for display.
! The venerable Hannibal Hamlin, the
only living ex-vice president OF the
United States, will come all the way from
Maine to Missouri to attend the G. A. E.
encampment. Mr.. Hamlin has just COM
pleted his 18th year.
| Ida Lewis Wilson still keeps the old
| boat in which she has saved thirteen per-
sons. and says that if she were again 90
have an opportunity to rescue the drown
ing she would use it rather than the
handsome new one presented by the citi-
zens of Newport.
There is some current comment on the
fact that the state of Tennessee still leaves
in neglected grave IN Alabama the re-
mains of Gen. John Sewer. Indeed, che
legislature has just rejected a proposition
to have them reinterred in Tennessee sou
and a suitable monument placed Above
them.
Experiments tried with new electrl-
cal device for use in feeding sheets OF
paper to printing presses prove quite
successful. It is automatic, and notice
of any trouble is signalled at once by
ringing bell.